meanwhile on capitol hill this morning there s far more pressure on lawmakers and the white house to reach a deal on the debt ceiling following a new urge want warning from the treasury department. and hollywood writers are on strike for the first time in 15 years putting production for movies and tv shows on hold. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, may 2nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with the latest in that deadly mass shooting in texas. there are now questions about the response by law enforcement after a family member who survived the shooting says that he repeatedly called 911. the family says they called 911 well before the shooting started after their neighbor refused to stop firing a gun near their house and then threatened them. about 15 minutes later they say the gunman went into the house with an ar-15 rifle and opened fire on the people inside. ramiro guzman told nbc news he was hiding in a clo
but that is where in cnn s ed lavender is in texas right now. ed, what do we know about this arrest? reporter: well, we know this arrest took place in a small town of cut and shoot, texas, which is about 10 to 11 miles north of where we are here in the cleveland area of texas, which is about an hour s drive north of houston. so, in the four days that francisco oropesa has been on the run from law enforcement, he has not traveled a great distance. and i think what we have seen over the last couple of days with patrols in the area, there was always this inclination, this thinking, that this suspect perhaps didn t travel very far from this area, even though fbi officials were saying earlier today, they have been following every possible lead in connecting with law enforcement contacts here in the state and across the country and even across the border. because this suspect is a mexican national, that concern has always been that perhaps he was figuring out some way of getting
Large of jurors currents and author of the book the crisis of zionism. Another hour of velshi begins now. Now. Good morning, its sunday oo may 5th. Many republican lawmakers have spent the weekend in Sunny Florida where the gop held its annual spring retreat this year. Some of them will have to face the bleak situation that faces them on capitol hill. Thousands of her presenters will be back in session tomorrow. There is one big issue hanging over their heads. Marjorie Taylor Greene is continuing to bow to force a vote to oust the speaker of the house, mike johnson, which she intends to bring in the floor in the coming days. If you didnt already know, marjorie Taylor Greene is big matt that johnson worked with ha democrats to negotiate the passage of some major bills, particularly the latest package of foreign aid that includes 60 billion for ukraine. Aid to ukraine has become a ne contentious point for Many Republican members, driven in no small part by Donald Trumps opposition to sen
At a donor event last night donald trump took another page out of the authoritarian playbook. I will get the congressmans reaction when he joins me here in studio. Later. It is clear that general z is going to be central to this campaign. A professor is here for a conversation about this moment for young people in america. My first interaction with some of his senior aides was in November 2016 two days after the election and it is still one of my clearest memories from that point of time. The day he visited the white house. He met with President Obama in the oval office. Well that was happening his son in law took a walk with them around the grounds. The Press Secretary at the time pointed out in the Briefing Room that day he brought someone else along to that day. The spokeswoman was here. He i had an opportunity to meet her while the President Elect was meeting with President Obama. Noted that she also had longer meetings with some of the members of the colleagues in the communicatio
Of a very busy newsweek for the president and his attorneys. At. Trumps week began with Opening Statements on monday in his criminal trial in new york which was followed by the prosecution calling its first witness. David pecker, over the course of four days he testified about crucial 2015 meeting between himself, trump and trumps then personal lawyer michael cohen. Prosecutors allege that it was at that meeting that the trio hashed out a plan to help trumps political chances by suppressing potentially scandalous stories about him. That strategy came to be known as catch and kill. Now it may not seem like there are any similarities between trumps criminal trial in new york and the fake elector scheme but for one thing both involve the falsification of documents or records. On top of that both cases allege the former president worked with others in addition to a crime. 16 people in michigan were charged with felonies last year for their roles in the fake elector effort. Six others in ne